How I spent My Summer Vacation
How I spent my summer vacation has nothing to do with real estate.
I didn’t look at houses or pick up a real estate magazine. I almost looked for a house magazine for Orange County at one point, but I was too tired.
Here’s Helen enjoying Pluto.
This year I bought an Amtrak California rail pass, which was definitely a mixed bag. Trains are great fun, if they’re on time and if there’s a seat — less fun if, as is often the case, they’re not or there isn’t.
Helen and I took the Amtrak from Sacramento down to Monterey, where we visited the Monterey Bay aquarium.
Next morning we were up early and on the train to Los Angeles, where our first outing was spent at the La Brea Tar Pits, looking at skeletons and recreations of critters who met unfortunate ends stuck in the tar.
Our second day in LA, we went to our favorite vacation spot in California, Universal Studios, where we went on Helen’s favorite ride ten times.
In LA we also rented a car, and drove that down to Disneyland. Our first day there we went to Disneyland classic and caught a few rides, including the new, Jack-Sparrowed Pirates, and the old Thunder Mountain, the Wildest Ride in the Wilderness.
Day two found us at Disney’s California Adventure, where Helen met Pluto, for a couple of iterations of California Screamin’, once down the Grizzly River Run, and a drop at the Tower of Terror, among others.
We had a third day and a possible jaunt to San Diego planned, but after baking in about 98 degrees of Anaheim heat on what turned out to be our last day, Helen called a halt. Yesterday we traveled.
Today I’m back, but I still have several days left on this rail pass…
